In the classical surroundings of Mayfair with its stone buildings, the bright red structure pointing skywards could be a sculpture or a piece of engineering; its colour as shocking in this location as the original was, albeit finished in white, in Paris in the 1970’s. Standing outside the Royal Academy, this full size replica […]
An astonishing achievement which puts the wrangling over the Green Bridge in London (and its costs) to shame. The 1.45 mile long High Line in New York, the new urban park created on part of the disused elevated New York Central Railroad West Side Line, was opened in two phases in 2009 and 2011, running […]
One of this week’s parties for Miami Basel combined an exhibition of four decades of Latin American art by ArtNexus with the marketing of Renzo Piano’s first residential project in the United States – the new luxury condominium development by the Terra Group at 8701 Collins Avenue on the edge of North Beach in Miami. […]
Standing like a symbol of the revitalisation of Amsterdam’s harbour on the IJ River, René van Zuuk’s sculptural Architecture Centre for Amsterdam (ARCAM), completed over a decade ago, represents the design-led regeneration which has brought buildings such as the historic Armoury, now the National Maritime Museum, into the 21st century and provided new high-quality contemporary […]
Standing like the prow of a ship, Renzo Piano’s Science Exploratorium (it cannot be called a museum) projects into the harbour in a thrusting building which contains five floors of interactive and hand-on science activities for children (old and young) underneath at large piazza which rises from ground level up to the café at the […]
On 16th November, Renzo Piano’s eagerly-awaited new Art Museums building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts will open to the public. The Harvard Art Museums comprises the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum which together have a stunning collection of 250,000 objects from ancient archaeological artifacts to contemporary art. Established […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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